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by Ambroise-Paul-Touissaint-Jules Valéry (1871 - 1945)

La Ceinture
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Quand le ciel couleur [d'une joue]1
Laisse enfin les yeux le chérir
Et qu’au point doré de périr
Dans les roses le temps se joue,

Devant le muet de plaisir
Qu’enchaîne une telle peinture,
Dans une Ombre à libre ceinture
Que le temps est près de saisir.

Cette ceinture vagabonde
Fait dans le souffle aérien
Frémir le suprème lien
De mon silence avec ce monde...

Absent, présent... Je suis bien seul,
Et sombre, ô suave linceul !

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1 Sauguet: "d'acajou"; further changes may exist not shown above.

Text Authorship:

  • by Ambroise-Paul-Touissaint-Jules Valéry (1871 - 1945), "La Ceinture" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Paul Hermann (1902 - 1944), "La Ceinture", 1935 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Henri-Pierre Poupard (1901 - 1989), as Henri Sauguet, "La Ceinture", 1945 [ voice and piano ], from Deux mélodies sur des poèmes de Paul Valéry, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "The Sash", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2017-05-08
Line count: 14
Word count: 77

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